Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the gift of diversity in the Church (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that the Spirit help us recognize the gift of different charisms within the Christian community, and to discover the richness of different ritual traditions in the heart of the Catholic Church."
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Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
5th Sunday of the Word of God (est. 2020)
Convocation of the Year of Prayer ahead of Jubilee 2025
Mass of the Sunday; Gloria, Creed, Pref. of Sunday.
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[68] Jon 3:1-5, 10; Ps 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9; 1 Cor 7:29-31; Mark 1:14-20.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 3 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
111th anniversary of the death of P. Aloysius Dhelleme (47) d. 1913 at Ambohimandroso, Madagascar.
Anniversary:
87th anniversary of the death of P. John Manssy (77) d. 1937 at Chishawasha, S. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
73rd anniversary of the death of P. Henry Day (85) d. 1951 at Maidenhead, Berks, England.
Anniversary:
3rd anniversary of the death of P. Charles Chilinda (ZAM) (56) d. 2021 at Lusaka, Zambia.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1540
Edmund Campion is born. "The glory and patron of the English Province."
1623
The English Vice-Province becomes a Province, with Richard Blount as the first Provincial.
1652
Election as General of Father Alexander Gottifredo. He died about six weeks after his election, and before the close of the Congregation.
1705
Claude Francois Menestrier, S.J. dies. He wrote a classic history of ballet, and created a ballet for Louis XIV performed at the College of Louis-le-Grand.
1795
The death in Rome of Ignatius Romberg. He was the German Assistant at the time of the Suppression and was imprisoned with Fr. General Ricci in Castel San Angelo.
1869
Fr. Joseph O’Callaghan, the procurator from Maryland is killed in a storm at sea while returning from Rome from a Congregation.
1911
A banquet is held at Georgetown University to honor alumnus Edward Douglas who was Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court.
1951
The Green House at Woodstock, the workers’ quarters, burns to the ground.
